The man who is admired for the ingenuity of his larceny is almost always rediscovering some earlier form of fraud. The b — John Kenneth Galbraith, The Age of Uncertainty
The man who is admired for the ingenuity of his larceny is almost always rediscovering some earlier form of fraud. The b — John Kenneth Galbraith, The Age of Uncertainty
The man who is admired for the ingenuity of his larceny is almost always rediscovering some earlier form of fraud. The b — John Kenneth Galbraith, The Age of Uncertainty
The man who is admired for the ingenuity of his larceny is almost always rediscovering some earlier form of fraud. The b — John Kenneth Galbraith, The Age of Uncertainty
The man who is admired for the ingenuity of his larceny is almost always rediscovering some earlier form of fraud. The b — John Kenneth Galbraith, The Age of Uncertainty
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The man who is admired for the ingenuity of his larceny is almost always rediscovering some earlier form of fraud. The basic forms are all known, have all been practiced. The manners of capitalism improve. The morals may not.

— John Kenneth Galbraith, The Age of Uncertainty
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